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Yol. I, No. 179. Norwalk Conn., Thursday Evening, September 3, 1891. . ; ^ j; ^ "J^Price One Cent, j
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MR HARBY M. GARDNER, JR. of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE'S Engraving, Book
ftud Jobbing Department. He is an expert
aud experienced Job Printer, and no work en­trusted
to him will be unsatisfactorily done.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. "
Bead our want column to-day.
Mrs. E. J. Hill was at New Haven
yesterday. _
A fairly good string gutter band is in
town.
Miss Julia Mollor, of Danbury, is vis­iting
friends in town.
Monday being Labor Day no paper
will be issued from this office.
The Civil Engineers' Association of
Connecticut met in Birmingham to-day.
—Choice grapes of all kinds at Ray­mond's.
179tf
To-morrow is the day for executing
pension vouchers.
—Headquarters for Peaches, Plums
and Pears at Raymond's Grocery. 179tf
Read the Labor Day advertisement
in another column.
Spurgeon is very weak and constant­ly
failing. He is unable to partake' of
food.
—The finest line of Pipes ever shown
in this town can be found at Benedict's
News Stand. 178tf
Miss Sallie Ayres, of Brooklyn, is
visiting Miss Charlotte Betts, on the
church green.
—All lovers of choice groceries, etc.,
can find them at Raymond's, at the
lowest possible prices. 179tf
Gen. Chas. Olmstaad expects to leave
town Friday, to j oin his wife who is at
the White Mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, of Bay
Ridge, are visiting Miss Ann Jennings,
on Merwin street.
—Ask Benedict for the Horseman,
the most Reliable Paper on the Horse
ever issued. 178tf
Hon. Thomas B. Reed delivered a
eulogy on Hannibal Hamlin, at Port­land,
Me., last night.
Louis Potter sold two handsome safe­ty
bicycles to R. S. Craufurd for his
youngsters to ride about Compo.
The Hartford & New York Transpor­tation
Company will put a" new twin
steel propeller on that line next year.
—The "Celebrated Green Mountain
Grapes" for sale at Raymond's. Fresh
every day. 179tf
The doctors have given up all hopes
of the noted Hartford criminal lawyer,
Samuel F. Jones. His death is expect­ed
at any moment.
George S. Pratt, of Bridgeport, is to
score the birds at the Orange Co., New
York, fair, to be held at Port Jervis,
from the 22d to the 25th of September.
The railing erected on Riverside ave­nue,
Nor walk, is a great improvement,
and that thoroughfare is now one of
the prettiest drives in town.—Sentinel.
At present there are only 267 prison­ers
confined in the stateprison atWeth-ersfield,
a decrease of more than 100
within the past year.
Rev. William H. Gilbert, secretary of
the Connecticut Bible society, has re­moved
from South Norwalk to 33 Wall
street, New Haven.
—The line of Cigars on sale by Bene­dict
cannot be surpassed in this town
for their excellent flavor and quality.
178-tf
Mrs. Alexander Britto, of Harbor
avenue, is thought to be dying of the
cancerous affection of which she has so
long been a sufferer.
Capt. Charles F. Loomis is to be one
?'. of the mounted marshals in the Labor
Day parade, and a good one he always
makes.
—Pads, Tablets and Stationery, in
great variety, at bottom prices, can be
7-y found at Benedict's News Emporium.
^ 178tf
^50 : ; • Burgess Isaac Bowe and wife, Brad.
Keith, John McPherson, Charles Piatt,
jf~ - Caleb Wood and George Scott are all
, ' , at Stony Creek to-day, attending the
re-union of the Tenth Connecticut.
,, „ . —Handsome new Double Buckboard
'"H? Quartered Oak, for sale at J^owprice.
Natural Wood Carriage Co.. Five Cor-
David Mellenger, of Lowell, Mass.,
was found murdered in his store yes­terday
morning. There is no clue.
O. E. Wilson has sold two lots on
Woodbury avenue to a New York shoe
manufacturer, who expects to put up a
fine residence thereon.
—The N. Y. and Paris Young Ladies
Fashioij Bazar for October, with all the
Fall.Styles can be had now, at Bene­dict's
News Depot. 178 tf
Ex-Chief De Forest is putting the
basement of Tristram & Hyatt in "ap­ple
pie order'' for their occupancy in
a new line of goods.
. Sim Keith, arrayed in his best pair of
clothes, struck town yesterday. Chief
Gormley has been shadowing nim since
his arrival. _
—Mrs. Timothy Collins charges that
Tom Silk and family, take advantage
of her husband's absence to annoy and
insult her. _
Lawyer Samuel F. Jones, of Hart­ford,
was removed from Twin Lakes to
his home in that city yesterday. His
condition has not improyed.
John Demorest, of Ro way ton has
sold the property lately purchased from
Warren E. Smith, at 1 ive Mile River,
to Samuel J. Beacom of New York.
George Wardwell wants 100 boys,
skilled in the game of euchre, to apply
at his market immediately and learn
Yet Taylor the mysteries of the game.
Mrs. George Beatty, somewhat im­proved
in health, has returned to town,
and is the guest of her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Robert P.Beatty, on Westavenue.
A Mr. Goepler, of Danbury, has
started a cider mill in the old Glover
mill at Sanford station. It has all the
modern improvement for squeezing
apples.
Postmaster Knowlton of Bridgeport,
has received his instructions to visit the
post-offices in Fairfield county and rec­ommend
changes for the benefit of the
service.
If the earth trembles some evening
next week, be not afraid, as it will only
be caused by the Forresters initiating
the three jumbo's, Giles Gregory, Hart
Weeks and Fent Pomeroy.
George B. Gregory is moving into
the Osborn House to-day, on Newtown
avenue near the Allen Betts' pond, he
having sold his Belden Hill farm to Mrs.
Arraline Weeden of New York.
J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, has
given $5,000 to the Hartford Y. M. C.
A. building fund which now reaches
$90,000. When $10,000 more is contri­buted
the building will be begun.
Burgess Bowe was around this morn­ing,
as fearless as an old Roman soldier,
notifying those of our merchants who.
were occupying more of the sidewalks
than the law allows, that they must
"draw in" just a little bit.
Oliver Jackson was at Hartford yes­terday
looking after the Norwalk wheel­men's
interests in the Hartford Wheel
club tournament, which opens at Char­ter
Oak Park on Monday.
James Hoyt, of New Canaan, writes
the Orange County Farmer, proposing
that E monument be raised to the late
Col. F. D.' Curtis, the agricultural
writer, by the farmers of New York
and the adjoining states.
ners, Norwalk 179 2t
In a few days, owing to increased
freight rates that always come with
cold weather, the price of coal_will ad­vance
fifteen or twenty-five cents. If
you have not ordered your coal for the
winter it will be well for you to do so.
Mr. Will Betts, of Nickerson & Betts,
accompanied his brother and sister on
their journey west as far as Detroit,
Mich. Mr. Betts is taking the trip for
the benefit of his health, which, from
overwork, has become somewhat im­paired.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ward Selleck
spent yesterday in New Britain. On
their way up, they chanced to be eye­witnesses
to the dreadful accident
which caused the mashing of poor
engine fireman Jones' leg at a New Ha­ven
open switch.
Work has commenced on, at least, a
partial regeneration of the plank
covering of the Danbury rail­road
trackfc in front of the post
office, This perpetual nuisance will
never be just right until iron girders
replace the old wooden saw logs.
Miss Rebecca Beers died last night,
aged 86, at No. 3 Water street. She has
been cared for by Mrs. Brown, and her
wants supplied by the M. E. church for
many years past. She was a sister of
the late Nathan Beers. Dr. YanAlstyne
is to conduct her funeral to-morrow at
3 p. m. from her late residence.
Edwin Comstock, of Four Corners,
was down this morning with another
load of his rich and delicious Connect­icut
grown peaches. The peach, like
the orange and pine apple, when al­lowed
to ripen on the tree, is far su­perior
in exquisite flavor to any picked
in an unripe state, as all southern fruits
shipped north have to be.
We are sincerely pained to learn that
Mr. B. W. Maples finds himself again
in a very serious physical condition,
since his return from his trip to the far
west, which was thought to have de­cidedly
benefitted him. His home
physician and a specialist whom he has
consulted, have ordered a complete ces­sation
from all mental and physical la­bors
and activities.whjeh-Twll.be. a venr.
hard .thing for him'to do.
Yernon Miller, the little son of C.
Osmond Miller, who is delivery clerk,
for Nickerson & Betts, says the reports
of his ghastly find are none of them
correct. He .was all alone picking gol­den
rod, when he saw the bundle in the
weeds and bushes a little way from the
road, in the lot. Not knowing what to
do he left it and went down to East
avenue, where he met some of his boy
acquaintances, who, with him, went
after Dr. Burke* who came and found
it a still-born child as stated, and or- !
dered its decent burial. i
Al. De Forest has hit on a novel de­vice
for fooling crabs. He went down
the creek a few. nights since, with his
lantern hung over the bow of his little
shallop, and as he tells it, the crabs be­came
so interested in, or fascinated by
his light, that they just slid up, side­ways,
hind-ways and all other, but a .
straight line way, to his boat and all he '
had to do was to just "scoop 'em in.''
He came back in a very short time with
a plump bushel of the interesting and
delightful little orustacea. Al. says it
has many a time taken him longer to
go across the street and see a man, than
it did to catch that bushel of crabs with
his lantern.
Water Scarce Again
The Water Coiimissioners have an of­ficial
notice of special interest to water
consumers in another column.
Crooked Work on the Track.
The judges have declared off all pools
on the pacing race, at Philadelphia, yes­terday,
owing to suspicions that Hal
Pointer had been tampered with.
To Be Sold. ''V
The employes of the Osborn & Chees-man
works in Ansonia have received no­tice
that the mill twill be shut down Oc­tober
1 and will npt be opened again by
the present management. The goods
as well as the property will be sold and
the proceeds will be. divided among the
creditors.
Mrs. Arraline Weeden, the lady who
has purchased the George B. Gregory
farm, on Belden's Hill, is on the editor­ial
staff of the Turf,-Field & Farm, and
expects to go up and down daily to her
work in New York. She will drive to
the South Wilton station and commute
on the Danbury and the N. Y. & N. H.
cars. She is a lady writer and litera-teur
of acknowledged ability in agri­cultural,
horticultural and animal in­dustry
matters. She has an invalid fa­ther
and husband, which she resolutely
and pluckily cares for, and her pur­chase
of this forty-acre farm was for the
purpose of giving them an enjoyable
country home. Mrs. Weeden's coming
here to live is a most agreeable acqui­sition
to the locality.
A Bad Barber.
William McQuien, a Westport bar­ber,
disappeared Monday night, leav­ing,
it is said, a large number of un-
Tpaid bills, and taking with him razors
and cups belonging to customers, be­sides
an amount bf money borrowed
• from friends. A wife and infant child
: are penniless.
Struck by Lightning.
In a severe rain storm at Grand Is­land,
Omaha, where the State Grand
Army and Sons of Yeterans reunion is
being held, a lightning bolt struck the
. camp. Nine men were prostrated. The
tent was wrecked; and it is believed
that- if it had not been for the metal on
the pole many people in the surround­ing
tents would haare been killed.
Ex-United States Treasurer, James
W. Hyatt, is already being boomed for
the next nominee to head the ticket for
Governor at the next State election. —
Stamford News.
The democrats are likely to "go
farther and fare worse" and no doubt,
will, just as they did last year. Had
Mr. Hyatt been their candidate last fall,
we should have been saved the ridicu­lous
Gubernatorial muddle our state is
now in, for the simplest of all reasons,
he would have been clearly and distinct­ly
elected. He has that way about him,
when a candidate. But there, the "ab­solutely
independent" and absolutely
non-partisan DAILY GAZETTE must stop
talking politics. Nevertheless, let the
Hyatt boomlet wave.
Accident to the Matt Rowe.
The tug Matt Rowe, which is at work
on a dredging contract of A. J. Beards-ley
& Son at Five Mile River,was taken
to Bridgeport, yesterday, and placed
on the ways. While turning around
the boat ran her stern into a bank, do­ing
considerable damage. The Annie-
R. Wood has taken the Rowe's place.
The New Postal Cards.
The first shipment of the new postal
cards from the factory at Shelton has
; been made. There were 7,000,000 of the
' large manilla, or business men's cards,
and 5,000,000 of the pearl gray cards for
ladies. They were sent to the St. Louis
sub-agency, but will not be issued un­til
the Chicago agency is supplied and
there is an accumulation of stock at the
! factory.
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' Base Ball Games.
National league—New York 2, Chi­cago
11; Brooklyn 1, Cleveland 8; Cin­cinnati
7, Boston 0; Pittsburg 4, Phil­adelphia
8.
American Association—Athletic 4,
: St. Louis 5; Boston 4, Columbus 4;
i Milwaukee 2, Baltimore 4. At Wash­ington
rain.
Eastern Association—Lebanon 5,
Buffalo 3. Albany 6, Troy 3.
• ••• - Last Ifretallrrient. *
! The City of Albany brought up, last
! night, the last lot of fresh air boys
I' who are to go to Branchville this sea-
1 son. There were ninety-seven of the
little fellows,jammed three in a seat, in
the Danbury car, as it started up the
road and that they were not uncom-fortally
pinched, is evident from the
fact that they went off singing as loud
as their little screeching voices could
yell out, the chorus of the song they
were struggling to sing.
An Old Relic.
Barney Cummings, the horse railway
track repairer, yesterday, removed the
old wooden string piece of the road in
front of Dr. Pardee's residence at
South Norwalk, which he put down in
July 1863, the day the draft riot oc­curred
in New York. Barney imme­diately
recognized his old friends by
the fact that it was put down with bolt
and nut instead of. the spike, as used at
the present time.
A Runaway Boy.
A boy who gave his name as James
Wallace and his age as thirteen years,
was taken in charge by Officer Gilligan
at the New Haven depot last evening
and taken to police headquarters, where
he was locked up in the truant room.
The boy says that his father and
mother are both dead and that he ran
away from a farmer named Faulkner
on the Bethel line, near Danbury,who,
he says, treated him so cruelly that he
was obliged to run away.
Green Mountain Grapes.
Grocer G.W.Raymond has a consign­ment
of the Hoyts' famous Green Moun­tain
grape. These are the first ones of
this choice variety that have been put
on the public sale in any market. We
congratulate friend Raymond on his
rare good fortune in being the first
merchant, in all the world, to handle
this grape, of which, at the recent
meeting of pomologists and others, at
the Hoyts' Nursery, the following was
said:
"Mr. J. W. Manning, of Reading,
Mass., who is a well known grape
grower, said he planted the Concord
grape five years before it was named.
He had made grape culture a study,
and it was his honest conviction that
the Green Mountain was the best early
white grape yet introduced."
"Mr. Draper, President of the Massa­chusetts
Grange, pronounced the grape
as raised by- him, as overtopping all
other grapes known, in vigor, earliness,
exquisite flavor and prodigious yield.'
Obituary.
JOSIAH RAYMOND.
At his home on the border line be­tween
Norwalk and Westport, last
night, the aged, honored and every­where
respected, Jo&iah Raymond,
passed to the beyond, in the 86th year
of his age. A half century ago,he was,
uside from being a thrifty farmer, one
of the most active and Sagacious busi­ness
men in either Norwalk or West-port.
For years he was a Fire Insu­rance
agent and so absolute was the
trust everybody reposed in him,
that he did a large and widely
extended business. For a period
of a quarter of a century or
more, he WJ,S the Westport correspond­ent
of the GAZETTE, and must have
been a continuous subscriber for more
than sixty years. His funeral is to be
on Saturday and his interment at the
old East ave nue cemetery, where re­pose
the dust of his honored, ancestors
land kinsfolk . III*
G. A. R.
| The first meeting of Buckingham
j Post, after the long summer adjourn­ment,
was held last evening and an un­usually
large number of comrades were
present. Capt. Wm. A. Ambler gave
an interesting account of his trip to the
national encampment at Detroit, but
perhaps the most cheering news of the
evening to the old Yets., was that giyen
by an agent of the Corporal Tanner
Pension agency, at Washington, when
the agent announced that under the
last pension act, every old soldier was
entitled to a pension. .
Major Tibbits.
It is very gratifying to the friends of
Major John A. Tibbits, now occupying
the post of United States consul at
Bradford, England, says the New Lon­don
Day, "to hear direct from Messrs.
Augustus Brandegee and Judge Crump,
who saw him less than a fortnight ago,
that he has regained his health and is
lboking like himself again. Major Tib­bits
.is as fully interested in all that
goes on in the state of Connecticut as
ever, and is as well posted in politics as
though he had never left these shores.
His voice will be heard from the stump
in his native land, in 1892, and he prob­ably
does not guess how hearty will be
his welcome from people of all shades
of politics."
Newspaper Changes.
Franklin H. Hart has resigned his
position as vice president and director
of the Palladium Publishing company,
and Gen. E. S. Greeley has resigned
his position as director.- In his letter
of resignation Mr. Hart stated that his
action was prompted by the course of
the paper during the legislative contro­versy.
A statement coming quite directly
from the Palladium office, yesterday, is
that on Monday night, at about 11
o'clock, ex-Judge Harrison transferred
his controlling interest in the paper,
1,400 shares, to Harry Alloway, of New
York. No authentic information about
the matter can be obtained for publi­cation.
It is also said that there will
be a change in the business manage­ment
of the paper. .vV-y j,/
c ^ A Curious Accident. L. .
Mr. J. Linxweiler's horse, yesterday,
did something that no horse, in this
section at least, has been credited with.
It caught its hind foot in its mouth,
and was unable to extricate. It is
thought that a fly alighted on its
mouth and, in an attempt to brush it
(the fly) away, the animal's hoof got
caught in his mouth as above. After
considerable exertion the foot was ex­tricated
from its perilous position and
the beast placed on his "pins" again.
Quinn Escaped.
John Quinn, alias Jersey, who com­mitted
rape on little Lillie Khueny sev­eral
weeks ago and was sentenced to
five years in state prison at Tolland,
has escaped from Tolland jail. He is
thought to be hiding in Manchester and
the officers are scouring the town for
him.
First Congregational Church.
The social branch of the "Ladies'
Association" of the Congregational
church held the first meeting of the
season yesterday and made plans for
their fall work. They completed ar­rangements
for the grand concert to be
given in the church by Edward Baxter
Perry and Miss Bertha Webb on the
25th inst. All lovers of good music will
have a rare treat, in hearing these re­markably
talented artists.
The Derby Races.
There was a much larger attendance
at the Derby races yesterday, the sec­ond
day of the eleventh annual fall
meeting of the association. In the 2.40
class, Frank W. won. Time 2.42, 2.39^,
2.39£.
Lady Thompson won in the 2.27class.
Time 2.20J: 2.30, 2.31.
Fannie won the members race in two
straight heats. Time 2.59,2.58.
Sheepshead Bay Races-
The races at this track yesterday re­sulted
as follows:
First race, 7 furlongs—Arab 1, Tan­ner
2, Chaos 3; time 1.27 2-5. Second
race, 6 furlongs—Rex 1, Madrid 2, Azra
3; time 1.15 1-5. Third race, 9 furlongs
—Cassius 1, Kingmaker 2; time 1.56.
Fourth race, futurity course—Ludwig
1, St* Pancras 2, Alscinder 3; time 1.11
1-5. Fifth race, 7 furlongs—Willie L 1,
Soho 2, Oycepete 3; time 1.28 3-5. Sixth
race, ly mile—Coral 1, Snowball 2, Vir-
'gie 3; time 2.15.
"Casper, The Yodler."
"Casper, the Yodler," as presented
by Chas. T. Ellis and his excellent com­pany
is attacting the largest audiences
of the season wherever he appears.
Mr. Ellis is reaping the harvest by his
faithful zealous work; No young ac­tor,
and Mr. Ellis is a young man yet,
has such a brilliant future before him.
Possessed of all the elements necessary
to make a successful actor, coupled
with the fact that he is the sweetest
singer on the stage to-day, is in itself
enough to attract the large audiences
which greet his every appearance. New
scenery has been especially prepared
for this season's production, and Mr.
Ellis will sing a number of new songs
of his own composition. He is sure to
have a crowded house here.
Carpets in Panoramic Splendor.
If the D. M. Read Co. keep on tun­nelling,
annexing, reaching up, down
and across, they will 'absorb what is
known as the Wheeler building in a
few years. Their latest acquisition is
the entire monstrous store known as
No. 448 Main street and No. 79 Middle
street for special displays in the carpet
and rug lines. They have united this
magnificent wareroom by a connection,
virtually making the two main stores
one and the same. The main object of
establishing this circuit of stores, is the
better and more convenient display of
hundreds of rare and elegant products
in the carpet and rug line never before
shown in such profusion in this city,.
These goods embrace every known
quality, pattern and style of floor or­namentation
in the home or foreign
markets, and being leaders and manu­facturers,
as well as wholesale and re­tail
dealers in carpets, the D. M. Read
Co. feel fully warranted in defying
competition in prices.
A Peculiar-Phenomenon.
A startling and most remarkable phe­nomenon
occurredinBrookfield on Sun­day
night which will be remembered to
life's end by those who heard it. An
electrical storm occurred which was in
no wise different from many others
either in kind or intensity. About the
time for the evening service, and when
the congregations of the churches were
awaiting the commencement of wor­ship,
it began to thunder and lightning
in the distance and the shower appear­ed
to be rapidly approaching until it
was diree'ly overhead.- Suddenly, as all
claps of thunder come, there was a
burst of musical thunder, sounding
somewhat like a gong in different tones
and so marked was the musical notes as
to be sweet and almost bugle-like. As
quick as a flash all the eyes of the con­gregation
in the church were directed
to the ceiling and the suppressed cry of
"What's that?" could be heard all
over the church. " It's thunder ! " was
the exclamation from all. All were
startled, although some were more
frightened than others. There were
those who doubtless being a little con­scious
stricken, thought of the final
reckoning.'—Danbury News.
Pat Croton Qil In the Ice Cream.
Vis ALIA, Cal., Sept. 8.—Eleven boarders
in the house of Mrs. McDermott were
taken suddenly ill immediately after eat­ing
some Ice cream. A doctor was sum­moned
and ^n investigation made, when it
was discovered that a large quantity of
croton oil had been mixed with the cream
before it was frozen. A boarder who had
been ordered to leave on account of his
drunken habits is supposed to be the guilty
party, and the police are now in search of
him. All the eleven boarders are said to
be out of danger.
CORRUPTION IN CANADA.
Brave Charges Made Against Chapleam'a
Administratoin by Mr. Lister.
OTTAWA, Sept. 3.—In the public ac­counts
committee J. B. Roland, of the Ro­land
paper mills at St. Jerome, was asked
by Mr. Lister how it was that he had
tendered bids for paper at 6 5-6, 7 and 1%
cents and had got the contract at tyc cents.
Roland said that he did not know; it was
so, but he could not explain it.
Mr. Chapleau, secretary of state, said
that a number of samples had been sent
In with various prices, and that the best
ftnd highest quality had been accepted,
und that Lister, in putting the question
In the form practically of a statement, as
he had done, was wilfully misleading the
committee.
Mr. Lister warmly denied this charge,
and said that in making it Mr. Chapleau
was deliberately insulting him. He had
not yet said anything that he could not
back up. He had charged that the secre­tary
of state's department was reeking
with corruption, and he had amply proved
It. Never in any country in the world
had such a state of corruption been known
to exist. Before he got through he threat­ened
he would bring home his charges
pretty close to the secretary himself'
When he stated that Roland had tendered
bids at 1% and had got 7X cents ha knew
what he was saying. The secretary of
Btate was talking of things he knew noth­ing
about.
Several Liberal members said that Chap­leau
should take back his insult. Mr.
Chapleau held that he had not insulted
Mr. Lister any more than Mr. Lister had
insulted him, and with a few more pas­sages
the storm passed over. Mr. Lister
asked if the witness' firm had paid any
money to C. A. Dansereau of the Conser­vative
association of Montreal. He said
he had. Mr. Chapleau said that the ques­tions
were irrelevant to the investigation.
In the course of his remarks Chapleau ad­mitted
that he himself had asked Mr.
Roland, as a rich manufacturer, to con­tribute
to the election fund.
THE PRISON INVESTIGATION.
How the Proceedings at Dannsmora
Will Be Conducted.
ALBANY, Sept. 3.—The commission ap­pointed
to investigate the charges in the
public press against the officials of Clin­ton
prison met at the office of the super­intendent
of prisons, and the following
course of procedure was decided upon:
No permission will be given to either
accused or accusers to be represented by
counsel. Mr. Craig, the president of the
state board of charities, is a lawyer and
can ask all the necessary questions in
proper legal form.
The hearing will not be open to the pub­lic,
but all the testimony will be taken by
a stenographer, and at the conclusion of
the hearing all the evidence, as well as the
report of the commission, will be given to
the press.
The commission will determine from
time to time as the hearing progresses
what measures shall be taken for the pro­tection
of witnesses who may be sworn.
The superintendent will adopt whatever
course in that regard that the commission
decides is proper or necessary.
The commission invites all persons hav­ing
any knowledge of facts bearing on the
merits of the matters to appear before the
commission at Clinton prison without
delay. The hearing will begin at Clinton
prison, at Dannemora, Thursday, Sept. 3,
at 10 o'clock.
Turned the Hose on Them.
CLIFTON, Ont., Sept. 3.—There has been
ill feeling between this town and the
Michigan Central railroad, and the latter
refused the town the privilege of laying a
water main under its tracks. The town
put a force of laborers at work excavating
and the railroad put another gang at work
dumping gravel into the excavation,
finally the town authorities ordered out
the fire companies. The water work's
pump was started and the nozzles of a
number of lines of hose were turned on
ihe railroad men. Things were lively for
a time, but the railroad gang was finally
vanquished.
Big Interests Involved.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 3.—Habeas corpus
proceedings were instituted in the gu-preme
court here to secure the release of
Mrs. J. Short, of Garfield county, charged
with killing her stepchild. The impor­tance
of the case lies in the fact that it
calls in question the organization of Gar­field
county, which, it is claimed, has
never been legally organized, and there­fore
its courts have had no Jurisdiction.
If successful it will render void the
numerous mortgage foreclosures of that
county and liquidate the county debt at
one fell swoop.
The Erie Strike Resumed.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 3. — Freight
brakemen and conductors on the Lake
Erie and Western road struck again last
evening, and have notified men at Peru,
J.lma and Indianapolis of their action.
The new schedule did not prove satisfac­tory
to them, and the committees saw
General Manager Bradbury yesterday at
Indianapolis. The conference did not
prove satisfactory and the strike began.
Knocked the Engineer's Head Off.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.,Sept. 3.—Richard Nash,
of Philadelphia, engineer on the fast Read­ing
express, while on the lookout, was
struck by some obstruction, near Oreville
station, and his head was severed from
the body. The body hung out of the cab
Window some minutes before the fireman
discovered what had occurred.
A Child Suffocated.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8.—The big
icehouses at Holyoke, owned by the
Holyoke and South Falls Ice company, to­gether
with a barn and two houses, were
burned. A child in one of the buildings
was suffocated and two others had nar­row
escapes. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of incendiaries. > s
The New York Disaster.
NEW" YORK, Sept. 8.—The coroner's in­vestigation
into the Park place disaster
was continued, and several witnesses tes­tified
regarding the shaky condition of the
building, and gave further evidence con­tradictory
of the theory that the disaster
was caused by an explosion. - \ '
GREETED BY SIRS. HARRISON.
Sirs. McKee and Mrs. Russell B. Harft- ;
son Return Erom Europe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The steamer Ma- ;
lestic, after a Voyage from Queenstown in
5 days 21 hours and 50 minutes, arrived at
quarantine, and the revenue cutter Grant,
with Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Rus* ;
sell Harrison, Mr. J. R. McKee, Mrs. w.- -
A. Dimmock, Lieutenant Cowles, George
W. Boyd, general agent of the Pennsylva-.^
nia railroad, and wife; J. A. H. Hay and*.; ^
others on board arrived at the -same time, ; ; --
and Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. Mc- ;;
Kee were immediately transferred, from ..
the Majestic to the Grant. The baggage of
the two latter ladies was then lowered to
the tug, a special custom house inspector
having been detailed to examine the bag^ .
gage on board the tug. The little ®
then steamed away to the foot of Twenty- - ^
third street, where the presidential party
were landed and driven to tlie Gilsey
House. |H':
Two days ago Russell B. Harrison, sonl^-:
of the president, went to Collector Fassettg||
at the custom house in this city and asked^
the collector to lend to him the revenues^ :.;
cutter Grant, so that he might meet thejg|
Majestic at quarantine and bring Mrs.
Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee to this -
city by a private vessel. Collector Fassetlgyjg.
refused to lend the Grant to Mr. Harrison.
Se said that the cutter had been built foi -
business purposes and not as a pleasure
boat. Collector Fassett telegraphed tc.^
Secretary of the Treasury Foster, who con-' ^ -
trols the movements of all revenue cut||||
ters, and received from him an official re-, ; ^
ply supporting the action which the col-;, v-lector
had taken in the matter. -
Later in the day, however, the collector--15
received this telegram from Secretary
Foster: "I notice by morning's papers thai
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the president, is Or
her way to New York to meet her daughtei
on the Majestic. Under the circumstancee
you will kindly put the revenue cuttei
Grant at Mrs. Harrison's disposal, to b^
used at her discretion."
SOLDIERS' HOMES OVERCROWDEDr*'
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And So All the Old Vets Who Can Wori
Must leave.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. b.—Nearly all th<
old soldiers now in the national home hew
who are able to w6rk will be compelled tc
leave the institution shortly, as the resull
of action recently taken by the national
board. The question of pensions will cul
no figure, and all ablebodied men, withoi
without pensions, will have to leave. Th«
action of the national board was caused b3
the discovery that the national homes al.
over the country were greatly over
crowded, and that many of the inmatef
were vigorous, hardy men, fully able tc
earn their living.
This was especially true of the home
near here. It was decided to order a thor­ough
medical examination of all inmatef
of the various branches of the home, witl
a view of reducing the number of perma­nent
inmates. The examination here will
take some time, as there are now 1,94(
regular inmates. The result of the phys­ical
examination, it is thought, will reduc«
the number so that all actually entitled tc
care and a home can be properly acconrg
modated. : -J
Dr. Justin's Experiment Successful.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 8.—Dr. Joel JusKS ,
tin went to Perryville, accompanied bj |
some friends, to make a test of his recenl
invention. The doctor's experiment con­sisted
in throwing a 60-pound shell from 0
5-inch parrot gun against a solid wall ol
limestone rock a' half mile distant from
the gun. Dynamite was not used, but In
Its stead nitro gelatin, a much more vio-lent
explosive. Forty-one ounces of this
substance was used in the shell, and when
the missile struck the target it exploded
With terrific force, tearing down large por­tions
of the wall. Only one shot was
made and that was wholly satisfactory.
The public experiment, in which both guns
Will be used, and at which a number oi
public officials will be in attendance, will
be held some time during the present,
month.
Another Rainmaker at Work.
CHEYENNE, Wy., Sept. 3.—Frank Alber-son
operated here yesterday with his secrel
process for rainmaking and the result wat
two showers, amounting to nearly half an
inch of precipitation. The heavy rain was
localj Cheyenne being the storm center ol
a ninety mile circumference. Albersor
keeps his secret well. He works in a barn
and has a hole in the roof for his use, bul
its utility has not been ascertained. Opin­ions
are divided as to whether he usei
chemical gases or electricity. The twe
storms came from different directionsi|ffiMl
The Davis Will Contest."
BUTTE, Mon., Sept.- 3.—A climax war5*3
reached in the Davis will case yesterday,
when experts tested the ink on the docu
mentto proye whether it was nigrosine
or logwood. In case the ink was logwood
the acid would cause it to turn a light red,
while if nigrosine the appliance of acid
would cause no change in color. To th<
chagrin of the contestants, the color of tin
writing where the acid was applied turned
to a reddish tint. The test was the clos«
of the testimony of the contestants.
Tried to Rob the Wrong Man.
VELPEN, Ind., Sept. 3.—Three men
named Posey, Miller and Fleming, wenl
into a small restaurant here and attempt
ed to rob the proprietor of everything thej
could lay hands on. The proprietor rar
for his pistol and shot, instantly killing
Posey and Fleming. He then ran to th<
door and shot twice at Miller. One shoi
took effect in the fleshy part of the thigh
inflicting an ugly wound. The man whe
did the shooting was arrested. ?
A Crisis in Gautemala. t ;
CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 8.—AdviSls re
ceived from Guatemala say that the elec­tion
excitement there is intense, and it is
feared no election can. take place. In suet
case President Barillos will hold over, and
he may try to declare himself dictator,
which will not only cause complications
in Gautemala, but in all Central America
||| rive Thousand Acres Burned Over.
SUGRAND FORKS, N. D., Sept. 8.—Five thou
sand acres of hay land, studded witl
stacks, was swept clean by a prairie fir<
last night, supposed to have caught front
a Northern Pacific locomotive, burning t<
the bank3 of the Turtle river. • < ?:^

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has charge of the GAZETTE'S Engraving, Book
ftud Jobbing Department. He is an expert
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to him will be unsatisfactorily done.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. "
Bead our want column to-day.
Mrs. E. J. Hill was at New Haven
yesterday. _
A fairly good string gutter band is in
town.
Miss Julia Mollor, of Danbury, is vis­iting
friends in town.
Monday being Labor Day no paper
will be issued from this office.
The Civil Engineers' Association of
Connecticut met in Birmingham to-day.
—Choice grapes of all kinds at Ray­mond's.
179tf
To-morrow is the day for executing
pension vouchers.
—Headquarters for Peaches, Plums
and Pears at Raymond's Grocery. 179tf
Read the Labor Day advertisement
in another column.
Spurgeon is very weak and constant­ly
failing. He is unable to partake' of
food.
—The finest line of Pipes ever shown
in this town can be found at Benedict's
News Stand. 178tf
Miss Sallie Ayres, of Brooklyn, is
visiting Miss Charlotte Betts, on the
church green.
—All lovers of choice groceries, etc.,
can find them at Raymond's, at the
lowest possible prices. 179tf
Gen. Chas. Olmstaad expects to leave
town Friday, to j oin his wife who is at
the White Mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, of Bay
Ridge, are visiting Miss Ann Jennings,
on Merwin street.
—Ask Benedict for the Horseman,
the most Reliable Paper on the Horse
ever issued. 178tf
Hon. Thomas B. Reed delivered a
eulogy on Hannibal Hamlin, at Port­land,
Me., last night.
Louis Potter sold two handsome safe­ty
bicycles to R. S. Craufurd for his
youngsters to ride about Compo.
The Hartford & New York Transpor­tation
Company will put a" new twin
steel propeller on that line next year.
—The "Celebrated Green Mountain
Grapes" for sale at Raymond's. Fresh
every day. 179tf
The doctors have given up all hopes
of the noted Hartford criminal lawyer,
Samuel F. Jones. His death is expect­ed
at any moment.
George S. Pratt, of Bridgeport, is to
score the birds at the Orange Co., New
York, fair, to be held at Port Jervis,
from the 22d to the 25th of September.
The railing erected on Riverside ave­nue,
Nor walk, is a great improvement,
and that thoroughfare is now one of
the prettiest drives in town.—Sentinel.
At present there are only 267 prison­ers
confined in the stateprison atWeth-ersfield,
a decrease of more than 100
within the past year.
Rev. William H. Gilbert, secretary of
the Connecticut Bible society, has re­moved
from South Norwalk to 33 Wall
street, New Haven.
—The line of Cigars on sale by Bene­dict
cannot be surpassed in this town
for their excellent flavor and quality.
178-tf
Mrs. Alexander Britto, of Harbor
avenue, is thought to be dying of the
cancerous affection of which she has so
long been a sufferer.
Capt. Charles F. Loomis is to be one
?'. of the mounted marshals in the Labor
Day parade, and a good one he always
makes.
—Pads, Tablets and Stationery, in
great variety, at bottom prices, can be
7-y found at Benedict's News Emporium.
^ 178tf
^50 : ; • Burgess Isaac Bowe and wife, Brad.
Keith, John McPherson, Charles Piatt,
jf~ - Caleb Wood and George Scott are all
, ' , at Stony Creek to-day, attending the
re-union of the Tenth Connecticut.
,, „ . —Handsome new Double Buckboard
'"H? Quartered Oak, for sale at J^owprice.
Natural Wood Carriage Co.. Five Cor-
David Mellenger, of Lowell, Mass.,
was found murdered in his store yes­terday
morning. There is no clue.
O. E. Wilson has sold two lots on
Woodbury avenue to a New York shoe
manufacturer, who expects to put up a
fine residence thereon.
—The N. Y. and Paris Young Ladies
Fashioij Bazar for October, with all the
Fall.Styles can be had now, at Bene­dict's
News Depot. 178 tf
Ex-Chief De Forest is putting the
basement of Tristram & Hyatt in "ap­ple
pie order'' for their occupancy in
a new line of goods.
. Sim Keith, arrayed in his best pair of
clothes, struck town yesterday. Chief
Gormley has been shadowing nim since
his arrival. _
—Mrs. Timothy Collins charges that
Tom Silk and family, take advantage
of her husband's absence to annoy and
insult her. _
Lawyer Samuel F. Jones, of Hart­ford,
was removed from Twin Lakes to
his home in that city yesterday. His
condition has not improyed.
John Demorest, of Ro way ton has
sold the property lately purchased from
Warren E. Smith, at 1 ive Mile River,
to Samuel J. Beacom of New York.
George Wardwell wants 100 boys,
skilled in the game of euchre, to apply
at his market immediately and learn
Yet Taylor the mysteries of the game.
Mrs. George Beatty, somewhat im­proved
in health, has returned to town,
and is the guest of her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Robert P.Beatty, on Westavenue.
A Mr. Goepler, of Danbury, has
started a cider mill in the old Glover
mill at Sanford station. It has all the
modern improvement for squeezing
apples.
Postmaster Knowlton of Bridgeport,
has received his instructions to visit the
post-offices in Fairfield county and rec­ommend
changes for the benefit of the
service.
If the earth trembles some evening
next week, be not afraid, as it will only
be caused by the Forresters initiating
the three jumbo's, Giles Gregory, Hart
Weeks and Fent Pomeroy.
George B. Gregory is moving into
the Osborn House to-day, on Newtown
avenue near the Allen Betts' pond, he
having sold his Belden Hill farm to Mrs.
Arraline Weeden of New York.
J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, has
given $5,000 to the Hartford Y. M. C.
A. building fund which now reaches
$90,000. When $10,000 more is contri­buted
the building will be begun.
Burgess Bowe was around this morn­ing,
as fearless as an old Roman soldier,
notifying those of our merchants who.
were occupying more of the sidewalks
than the law allows, that they must
"draw in" just a little bit.
Oliver Jackson was at Hartford yes­terday
looking after the Norwalk wheel­men's
interests in the Hartford Wheel
club tournament, which opens at Char­ter
Oak Park on Monday.
James Hoyt, of New Canaan, writes
the Orange County Farmer, proposing
that E monument be raised to the late
Col. F. D.' Curtis, the agricultural
writer, by the farmers of New York
and the adjoining states.
ners, Norwalk 179 2t
In a few days, owing to increased
freight rates that always come with
cold weather, the price of coal_will ad­vance
fifteen or twenty-five cents. If
you have not ordered your coal for the
winter it will be well for you to do so.
Mr. Will Betts, of Nickerson & Betts,
accompanied his brother and sister on
their journey west as far as Detroit,
Mich. Mr. Betts is taking the trip for
the benefit of his health, which, from
overwork, has become somewhat im­paired.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ward Selleck
spent yesterday in New Britain. On
their way up, they chanced to be eye­witnesses
to the dreadful accident
which caused the mashing of poor
engine fireman Jones' leg at a New Ha­ven
open switch.
Work has commenced on, at least, a
partial regeneration of the plank
covering of the Danbury rail­road
trackfc in front of the post
office, This perpetual nuisance will
never be just right until iron girders
replace the old wooden saw logs.
Miss Rebecca Beers died last night,
aged 86, at No. 3 Water street. She has
been cared for by Mrs. Brown, and her
wants supplied by the M. E. church for
many years past. She was a sister of
the late Nathan Beers. Dr. YanAlstyne
is to conduct her funeral to-morrow at
3 p. m. from her late residence.
Edwin Comstock, of Four Corners,
was down this morning with another
load of his rich and delicious Connect­icut
grown peaches. The peach, like
the orange and pine apple, when al­lowed
to ripen on the tree, is far su­perior
in exquisite flavor to any picked
in an unripe state, as all southern fruits
shipped north have to be.
We are sincerely pained to learn that
Mr. B. W. Maples finds himself again
in a very serious physical condition,
since his return from his trip to the far
west, which was thought to have de­cidedly
benefitted him. His home
physician and a specialist whom he has
consulted, have ordered a complete ces­sation
from all mental and physical la­bors
and activities.whjeh-Twll.be. a venr.
hard .thing for him'to do.
Yernon Miller, the little son of C.
Osmond Miller, who is delivery clerk,
for Nickerson & Betts, says the reports
of his ghastly find are none of them
correct. He .was all alone picking gol­den
rod, when he saw the bundle in the
weeds and bushes a little way from the
road, in the lot. Not knowing what to
do he left it and went down to East
avenue, where he met some of his boy
acquaintances, who, with him, went
after Dr. Burke* who came and found
it a still-born child as stated, and or- !
dered its decent burial. i
Al. De Forest has hit on a novel de­vice
for fooling crabs. He went down
the creek a few. nights since, with his
lantern hung over the bow of his little
shallop, and as he tells it, the crabs be­came
so interested in, or fascinated by
his light, that they just slid up, side­ways,
hind-ways and all other, but a .
straight line way, to his boat and all he '
had to do was to just "scoop 'em in.''
He came back in a very short time with
a plump bushel of the interesting and
delightful little orustacea. Al. says it
has many a time taken him longer to
go across the street and see a man, than
it did to catch that bushel of crabs with
his lantern.
Water Scarce Again
The Water Coiimissioners have an of­ficial
notice of special interest to water
consumers in another column.
Crooked Work on the Track.
The judges have declared off all pools
on the pacing race, at Philadelphia, yes­terday,
owing to suspicions that Hal
Pointer had been tampered with.
To Be Sold. ''V
The employes of the Osborn & Chees-man
works in Ansonia have received no­tice
that the mill twill be shut down Oc­tober
1 and will npt be opened again by
the present management. The goods
as well as the property will be sold and
the proceeds will be. divided among the
creditors.
Mrs. Arraline Weeden, the lady who
has purchased the George B. Gregory
farm, on Belden's Hill, is on the editor­ial
staff of the Turf,-Field & Farm, and
expects to go up and down daily to her
work in New York. She will drive to
the South Wilton station and commute
on the Danbury and the N. Y. & N. H.
cars. She is a lady writer and litera-teur
of acknowledged ability in agri­cultural,
horticultural and animal in­dustry
matters. She has an invalid fa­ther
and husband, which she resolutely
and pluckily cares for, and her pur­chase
of this forty-acre farm was for the
purpose of giving them an enjoyable
country home. Mrs. Weeden's coming
here to live is a most agreeable acqui­sition
to the locality.
A Bad Barber.
William McQuien, a Westport bar­ber,
disappeared Monday night, leav­ing,
it is said, a large number of un-
Tpaid bills, and taking with him razors
and cups belonging to customers, be­sides
an amount bf money borrowed
• from friends. A wife and infant child
: are penniless.
Struck by Lightning.
In a severe rain storm at Grand Is­land,
Omaha, where the State Grand
Army and Sons of Yeterans reunion is
being held, a lightning bolt struck the
. camp. Nine men were prostrated. The
tent was wrecked; and it is believed
that- if it had not been for the metal on
the pole many people in the surround­ing
tents would haare been killed.
Ex-United States Treasurer, James
W. Hyatt, is already being boomed for
the next nominee to head the ticket for
Governor at the next State election. —
Stamford News.
The democrats are likely to "go
farther and fare worse" and no doubt,
will, just as they did last year. Had
Mr. Hyatt been their candidate last fall,
we should have been saved the ridicu­lous
Gubernatorial muddle our state is
now in, for the simplest of all reasons,
he would have been clearly and distinct­ly
elected. He has that way about him,
when a candidate. But there, the "ab­solutely
independent" and absolutely
non-partisan DAILY GAZETTE must stop
talking politics. Nevertheless, let the
Hyatt boomlet wave.
Accident to the Matt Rowe.
The tug Matt Rowe, which is at work
on a dredging contract of A. J. Beards-ley
& Son at Five Mile River,was taken
to Bridgeport, yesterday, and placed
on the ways. While turning around
the boat ran her stern into a bank, do­ing
considerable damage. The Annie-
R. Wood has taken the Rowe's place.
The New Postal Cards.
The first shipment of the new postal
cards from the factory at Shelton has
; been made. There were 7,000,000 of the
' large manilla, or business men's cards,
and 5,000,000 of the pearl gray cards for
ladies. They were sent to the St. Louis
sub-agency, but will not be issued un­til
the Chicago agency is supplied and
there is an accumulation of stock at the
! factory.
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' Base Ball Games.
National league—New York 2, Chi­cago
11; Brooklyn 1, Cleveland 8; Cin­cinnati
7, Boston 0; Pittsburg 4, Phil­adelphia
8.
American Association—Athletic 4,
: St. Louis 5; Boston 4, Columbus 4;
i Milwaukee 2, Baltimore 4. At Wash­ington
rain.
Eastern Association—Lebanon 5,
Buffalo 3. Albany 6, Troy 3.
• ••• - Last Ifretallrrient. *
! The City of Albany brought up, last
! night, the last lot of fresh air boys
I' who are to go to Branchville this sea-
1 son. There were ninety-seven of the
little fellows,jammed three in a seat, in
the Danbury car, as it started up the
road and that they were not uncom-fortally
pinched, is evident from the
fact that they went off singing as loud
as their little screeching voices could
yell out, the chorus of the song they
were struggling to sing.
An Old Relic.
Barney Cummings, the horse railway
track repairer, yesterday, removed the
old wooden string piece of the road in
front of Dr. Pardee's residence at
South Norwalk, which he put down in
July 1863, the day the draft riot oc­curred
in New York. Barney imme­diately
recognized his old friends by
the fact that it was put down with bolt
and nut instead of. the spike, as used at
the present time.
A Runaway Boy.
A boy who gave his name as James
Wallace and his age as thirteen years,
was taken in charge by Officer Gilligan
at the New Haven depot last evening
and taken to police headquarters, where
he was locked up in the truant room.
The boy says that his father and
mother are both dead and that he ran
away from a farmer named Faulkner
on the Bethel line, near Danbury,who,
he says, treated him so cruelly that he
was obliged to run away.
Green Mountain Grapes.
Grocer G.W.Raymond has a consign­ment
of the Hoyts' famous Green Moun­tain
grape. These are the first ones of
this choice variety that have been put
on the public sale in any market. We
congratulate friend Raymond on his
rare good fortune in being the first
merchant, in all the world, to handle
this grape, of which, at the recent
meeting of pomologists and others, at
the Hoyts' Nursery, the following was
said:
"Mr. J. W. Manning, of Reading,
Mass., who is a well known grape
grower, said he planted the Concord
grape five years before it was named.
He had made grape culture a study,
and it was his honest conviction that
the Green Mountain was the best early
white grape yet introduced."
"Mr. Draper, President of the Massa­chusetts
Grange, pronounced the grape
as raised by- him, as overtopping all
other grapes known, in vigor, earliness,
exquisite flavor and prodigious yield.'
Obituary.
JOSIAH RAYMOND.
At his home on the border line be­tween
Norwalk and Westport, last
night, the aged, honored and every­where
respected, Jo&iah Raymond,
passed to the beyond, in the 86th year
of his age. A half century ago,he was,
uside from being a thrifty farmer, one
of the most active and Sagacious busi­ness
men in either Norwalk or West-port.
For years he was a Fire Insu­rance
agent and so absolute was the
trust everybody reposed in him,
that he did a large and widely
extended business. For a period
of a quarter of a century or
more, he WJ,S the Westport correspond­ent
of the GAZETTE, and must have
been a continuous subscriber for more
than sixty years. His funeral is to be
on Saturday and his interment at the
old East ave nue cemetery, where re­pose
the dust of his honored, ancestors
land kinsfolk . III*
G. A. R.
| The first meeting of Buckingham
j Post, after the long summer adjourn­ment,
was held last evening and an un­usually
large number of comrades were
present. Capt. Wm. A. Ambler gave
an interesting account of his trip to the
national encampment at Detroit, but
perhaps the most cheering news of the
evening to the old Yets., was that giyen
by an agent of the Corporal Tanner
Pension agency, at Washington, when
the agent announced that under the
last pension act, every old soldier was
entitled to a pension. .
Major Tibbits.
It is very gratifying to the friends of
Major John A. Tibbits, now occupying
the post of United States consul at
Bradford, England, says the New Lon­don
Day, "to hear direct from Messrs.
Augustus Brandegee and Judge Crump,
who saw him less than a fortnight ago,
that he has regained his health and is
lboking like himself again. Major Tib­bits
.is as fully interested in all that
goes on in the state of Connecticut as
ever, and is as well posted in politics as
though he had never left these shores.
His voice will be heard from the stump
in his native land, in 1892, and he prob­ably
does not guess how hearty will be
his welcome from people of all shades
of politics."
Newspaper Changes.
Franklin H. Hart has resigned his
position as vice president and director
of the Palladium Publishing company,
and Gen. E. S. Greeley has resigned
his position as director.- In his letter
of resignation Mr. Hart stated that his
action was prompted by the course of
the paper during the legislative contro­versy.
A statement coming quite directly
from the Palladium office, yesterday, is
that on Monday night, at about 11
o'clock, ex-Judge Harrison transferred
his controlling interest in the paper,
1,400 shares, to Harry Alloway, of New
York. No authentic information about
the matter can be obtained for publi­cation.
It is also said that there will
be a change in the business manage­ment
of the paper. .vV-y j,/
c ^ A Curious Accident. L. .
Mr. J. Linxweiler's horse, yesterday,
did something that no horse, in this
section at least, has been credited with.
It caught its hind foot in its mouth,
and was unable to extricate. It is
thought that a fly alighted on its
mouth and, in an attempt to brush it
(the fly) away, the animal's hoof got
caught in his mouth as above. After
considerable exertion the foot was ex­tricated
from its perilous position and
the beast placed on his "pins" again.
Quinn Escaped.
John Quinn, alias Jersey, who com­mitted
rape on little Lillie Khueny sev­eral
weeks ago and was sentenced to
five years in state prison at Tolland,
has escaped from Tolland jail. He is
thought to be hiding in Manchester and
the officers are scouring the town for
him.
First Congregational Church.
The social branch of the "Ladies'
Association" of the Congregational
church held the first meeting of the
season yesterday and made plans for
their fall work. They completed ar­rangements
for the grand concert to be
given in the church by Edward Baxter
Perry and Miss Bertha Webb on the
25th inst. All lovers of good music will
have a rare treat, in hearing these re­markably
talented artists.
The Derby Races.
There was a much larger attendance
at the Derby races yesterday, the sec­ond
day of the eleventh annual fall
meeting of the association. In the 2.40
class, Frank W. won. Time 2.42, 2.39^,
2.39£.
Lady Thompson won in the 2.27class.
Time 2.20J: 2.30, 2.31.
Fannie won the members race in two
straight heats. Time 2.59,2.58.
Sheepshead Bay Races-
The races at this track yesterday re­sulted
as follows:
First race, 7 furlongs—Arab 1, Tan­ner
2, Chaos 3; time 1.27 2-5. Second
race, 6 furlongs—Rex 1, Madrid 2, Azra
3; time 1.15 1-5. Third race, 9 furlongs
—Cassius 1, Kingmaker 2; time 1.56.
Fourth race, futurity course—Ludwig
1, St* Pancras 2, Alscinder 3; time 1.11
1-5. Fifth race, 7 furlongs—Willie L 1,
Soho 2, Oycepete 3; time 1.28 3-5. Sixth
race, ly mile—Coral 1, Snowball 2, Vir-
'gie 3; time 2.15.
"Casper, The Yodler."
"Casper, the Yodler," as presented
by Chas. T. Ellis and his excellent com­pany
is attacting the largest audiences
of the season wherever he appears.
Mr. Ellis is reaping the harvest by his
faithful zealous work; No young ac­tor,
and Mr. Ellis is a young man yet,
has such a brilliant future before him.
Possessed of all the elements necessary
to make a successful actor, coupled
with the fact that he is the sweetest
singer on the stage to-day, is in itself
enough to attract the large audiences
which greet his every appearance. New
scenery has been especially prepared
for this season's production, and Mr.
Ellis will sing a number of new songs
of his own composition. He is sure to
have a crowded house here.
Carpets in Panoramic Splendor.
If the D. M. Read Co. keep on tun­nelling,
annexing, reaching up, down
and across, they will 'absorb what is
known as the Wheeler building in a
few years. Their latest acquisition is
the entire monstrous store known as
No. 448 Main street and No. 79 Middle
street for special displays in the carpet
and rug lines. They have united this
magnificent wareroom by a connection,
virtually making the two main stores
one and the same. The main object of
establishing this circuit of stores, is the
better and more convenient display of
hundreds of rare and elegant products
in the carpet and rug line never before
shown in such profusion in this city,.
These goods embrace every known
quality, pattern and style of floor or­namentation
in the home or foreign
markets, and being leaders and manu­facturers,
as well as wholesale and re­tail
dealers in carpets, the D. M. Read
Co. feel fully warranted in defying
competition in prices.
A Peculiar-Phenomenon.
A startling and most remarkable phe­nomenon
occurredinBrookfield on Sun­day
night which will be remembered to
life's end by those who heard it. An
electrical storm occurred which was in
no wise different from many others
either in kind or intensity. About the
time for the evening service, and when
the congregations of the churches were
awaiting the commencement of wor­ship,
it began to thunder and lightning
in the distance and the shower appear­ed
to be rapidly approaching until it
was diree'ly overhead.- Suddenly, as all
claps of thunder come, there was a
burst of musical thunder, sounding
somewhat like a gong in different tones
and so marked was the musical notes as
to be sweet and almost bugle-like. As
quick as a flash all the eyes of the con­gregation
in the church were directed
to the ceiling and the suppressed cry of
"What's that?" could be heard all
over the church. " It's thunder ! " was
the exclamation from all. All were
startled, although some were more
frightened than others. There were
those who doubtless being a little con­scious
stricken, thought of the final
reckoning.'—Danbury News.
Pat Croton Qil In the Ice Cream.
Vis ALIA, Cal., Sept. 8.—Eleven boarders
in the house of Mrs. McDermott were
taken suddenly ill immediately after eat­ing
some Ice cream. A doctor was sum­moned
and ^n investigation made, when it
was discovered that a large quantity of
croton oil had been mixed with the cream
before it was frozen. A boarder who had
been ordered to leave on account of his
drunken habits is supposed to be the guilty
party, and the police are now in search of
him. All the eleven boarders are said to
be out of danger.
CORRUPTION IN CANADA.
Brave Charges Made Against Chapleam'a
Administratoin by Mr. Lister.
OTTAWA, Sept. 3.—In the public ac­counts
committee J. B. Roland, of the Ro­land
paper mills at St. Jerome, was asked
by Mr. Lister how it was that he had
tendered bids for paper at 6 5-6, 7 and 1%
cents and had got the contract at tyc cents.
Roland said that he did not know; it was
so, but he could not explain it.
Mr. Chapleau, secretary of state, said
that a number of samples had been sent
In with various prices, and that the best
ftnd highest quality had been accepted,
und that Lister, in putting the question
In the form practically of a statement, as
he had done, was wilfully misleading the
committee.
Mr. Lister warmly denied this charge,
and said that in making it Mr. Chapleau
was deliberately insulting him. He had
not yet said anything that he could not
back up. He had charged that the secre­tary
of state's department was reeking
with corruption, and he had amply proved
It. Never in any country in the world
had such a state of corruption been known
to exist. Before he got through he threat­ened
he would bring home his charges
pretty close to the secretary himself'
When he stated that Roland had tendered
bids at 1% and had got 7X cents ha knew
what he was saying. The secretary of
Btate was talking of things he knew noth­ing
about.
Several Liberal members said that Chap­leau
should take back his insult. Mr.
Chapleau held that he had not insulted
Mr. Lister any more than Mr. Lister had
insulted him, and with a few more pas­sages
the storm passed over. Mr. Lister
asked if the witness' firm had paid any
money to C. A. Dansereau of the Conser­vative
association of Montreal. He said
he had. Mr. Chapleau said that the ques­tions
were irrelevant to the investigation.
In the course of his remarks Chapleau ad­mitted
that he himself had asked Mr.
Roland, as a rich manufacturer, to con­tribute
to the election fund.
THE PRISON INVESTIGATION.
How the Proceedings at Dannsmora
Will Be Conducted.
ALBANY, Sept. 3.—The commission ap­pointed
to investigate the charges in the
public press against the officials of Clin­ton
prison met at the office of the super­intendent
of prisons, and the following
course of procedure was decided upon:
No permission will be given to either
accused or accusers to be represented by
counsel. Mr. Craig, the president of the
state board of charities, is a lawyer and
can ask all the necessary questions in
proper legal form.
The hearing will not be open to the pub­lic,
but all the testimony will be taken by
a stenographer, and at the conclusion of
the hearing all the evidence, as well as the
report of the commission, will be given to
the press.
The commission will determine from
time to time as the hearing progresses
what measures shall be taken for the pro­tection
of witnesses who may be sworn.
The superintendent will adopt whatever
course in that regard that the commission
decides is proper or necessary.
The commission invites all persons hav­ing
any knowledge of facts bearing on the
merits of the matters to appear before the
commission at Clinton prison without
delay. The hearing will begin at Clinton
prison, at Dannemora, Thursday, Sept. 3,
at 10 o'clock.
Turned the Hose on Them.
CLIFTON, Ont., Sept. 3.—There has been
ill feeling between this town and the
Michigan Central railroad, and the latter
refused the town the privilege of laying a
water main under its tracks. The town
put a force of laborers at work excavating
and the railroad put another gang at work
dumping gravel into the excavation,
finally the town authorities ordered out
the fire companies. The water work's
pump was started and the nozzles of a
number of lines of hose were turned on
ihe railroad men. Things were lively for
a time, but the railroad gang was finally
vanquished.
Big Interests Involved.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 3.—Habeas corpus
proceedings were instituted in the gu-preme
court here to secure the release of
Mrs. J. Short, of Garfield county, charged
with killing her stepchild. The impor­tance
of the case lies in the fact that it
calls in question the organization of Gar­field
county, which, it is claimed, has
never been legally organized, and there­fore
its courts have had no Jurisdiction.
If successful it will render void the
numerous mortgage foreclosures of that
county and liquidate the county debt at
one fell swoop.
The Erie Strike Resumed.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 3. — Freight
brakemen and conductors on the Lake
Erie and Western road struck again last
evening, and have notified men at Peru,
J.lma and Indianapolis of their action.
The new schedule did not prove satisfac­tory
to them, and the committees saw
General Manager Bradbury yesterday at
Indianapolis. The conference did not
prove satisfactory and the strike began.
Knocked the Engineer's Head Off.
BETHLEHEM, Pa.,Sept. 3.—Richard Nash,
of Philadelphia, engineer on the fast Read­ing
express, while on the lookout, was
struck by some obstruction, near Oreville
station, and his head was severed from
the body. The body hung out of the cab
Window some minutes before the fireman
discovered what had occurred.
A Child Suffocated.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8.—The big
icehouses at Holyoke, owned by the
Holyoke and South Falls Ice company, to­gether
with a barn and two houses, were
burned. A child in one of the buildings
was suffocated and two others had nar­row
escapes. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of incendiaries. > s
The New York Disaster.
NEW" YORK, Sept. 8.—The coroner's in­vestigation
into the Park place disaster
was continued, and several witnesses tes­tified
regarding the shaky condition of the
building, and gave further evidence con­tradictory
of the theory that the disaster
was caused by an explosion. - \ '
GREETED BY SIRS. HARRISON.
Sirs. McKee and Mrs. Russell B. Harft- ;
son Return Erom Europe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The steamer Ma- ;
lestic, after a Voyage from Queenstown in
5 days 21 hours and 50 minutes, arrived at
quarantine, and the revenue cutter Grant,
with Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Rus* ;
sell Harrison, Mr. J. R. McKee, Mrs. w.- -
A. Dimmock, Lieutenant Cowles, George
W. Boyd, general agent of the Pennsylva-.^
nia railroad, and wife; J. A. H. Hay and*.; ^
others on board arrived at the -same time, ; ; --
and Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. Mc- ;;
Kee were immediately transferred, from ..
the Majestic to the Grant. The baggage of
the two latter ladies was then lowered to
the tug, a special custom house inspector
having been detailed to examine the bag^ .
gage on board the tug. The little ®
then steamed away to the foot of Twenty- - ^
third street, where the presidential party
were landed and driven to tlie Gilsey
House. |H':
Two days ago Russell B. Harrison, sonl^-:
of the president, went to Collector Fassettg||
at the custom house in this city and asked^
the collector to lend to him the revenues^ :.;
cutter Grant, so that he might meet thejg|
Majestic at quarantine and bring Mrs.
Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee to this -
city by a private vessel. Collector Fassetlgyjg.
refused to lend the Grant to Mr. Harrison.
Se said that the cutter had been built foi -
business purposes and not as a pleasure
boat. Collector Fassett telegraphed tc.^
Secretary of the Treasury Foster, who con-' ^ -
trols the movements of all revenue cut||||
ters, and received from him an official re-, ; ^
ply supporting the action which the col-;, v-lector
had taken in the matter. -
Later in the day, however, the collector--15
received this telegram from Secretary
Foster: "I notice by morning's papers thai
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the president, is Or
her way to New York to meet her daughtei
on the Majestic. Under the circumstancee
you will kindly put the revenue cuttei
Grant at Mrs. Harrison's disposal, to b^
used at her discretion."
SOLDIERS' HOMES OVERCROWDEDr*'
,«?S
iS
And So All the Old Vets Who Can Wori
Must leave.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. b.—Nearly all th<
old soldiers now in the national home hew
who are able to w6rk will be compelled tc
leave the institution shortly, as the resull
of action recently taken by the national
board. The question of pensions will cul
no figure, and all ablebodied men, withoi
without pensions, will have to leave. Th«
action of the national board was caused b3
the discovery that the national homes al.
over the country were greatly over
crowded, and that many of the inmatef
were vigorous, hardy men, fully able tc
earn their living.
This was especially true of the home
near here. It was decided to order a thor­ough
medical examination of all inmatef
of the various branches of the home, witl
a view of reducing the number of perma­nent
inmates. The examination here will
take some time, as there are now 1,94(
regular inmates. The result of the phys­ical
examination, it is thought, will reduc«
the number so that all actually entitled tc
care and a home can be properly acconrg
modated. : -J
Dr. Justin's Experiment Successful.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 8.—Dr. Joel JusKS ,
tin went to Perryville, accompanied bj |
some friends, to make a test of his recenl
invention. The doctor's experiment con­sisted
in throwing a 60-pound shell from 0
5-inch parrot gun against a solid wall ol
limestone rock a' half mile distant from
the gun. Dynamite was not used, but In
Its stead nitro gelatin, a much more vio-lent
explosive. Forty-one ounces of this
substance was used in the shell, and when
the missile struck the target it exploded
With terrific force, tearing down large por­tions
of the wall. Only one shot was
made and that was wholly satisfactory.
The public experiment, in which both guns
Will be used, and at which a number oi
public officials will be in attendance, will
be held some time during the present,
month.
Another Rainmaker at Work.
CHEYENNE, Wy., Sept. 3.—Frank Alber-son
operated here yesterday with his secrel
process for rainmaking and the result wat
two showers, amounting to nearly half an
inch of precipitation. The heavy rain was
localj Cheyenne being the storm center ol
a ninety mile circumference. Albersor
keeps his secret well. He works in a barn
and has a hole in the roof for his use, bul
its utility has not been ascertained. Opin­ions
are divided as to whether he usei
chemical gases or electricity. The twe
storms came from different directionsi|ffiMl
The Davis Will Contest."
BUTTE, Mon., Sept.- 3.—A climax war5*3
reached in the Davis will case yesterday,
when experts tested the ink on the docu
mentto proye whether it was nigrosine
or logwood. In case the ink was logwood
the acid would cause it to turn a light red,
while if nigrosine the appliance of acid
would cause no change in color. To th<
chagrin of the contestants, the color of tin
writing where the acid was applied turned
to a reddish tint. The test was the clos«
of the testimony of the contestants.
Tried to Rob the Wrong Man.
VELPEN, Ind., Sept. 3.—Three men
named Posey, Miller and Fleming, wenl
into a small restaurant here and attempt
ed to rob the proprietor of everything thej
could lay hands on. The proprietor rar
for his pistol and shot, instantly killing
Posey and Fleming. He then ran to th<
door and shot twice at Miller. One shoi
took effect in the fleshy part of the thigh
inflicting an ugly wound. The man whe
did the shooting was arrested. ?
A Crisis in Gautemala. t ;
CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 8.—AdviSls re
ceived from Guatemala say that the elec­tion
excitement there is intense, and it is
feared no election can. take place. In suet
case President Barillos will hold over, and
he may try to declare himself dictator,
which will not only cause complications
in Gautemala, but in all Central America
||| rive Thousand Acres Burned Over.
SUGRAND FORKS, N. D., Sept. 8.—Five thou
sand acres of hay land, studded witl
stacks, was swept clean by a prairie fir<
last night, supposed to have caught front
a Northern Pacific locomotive, burning t<
the bank3 of the Turtle river. • < ?:^